New York City, July 16-19, 2016

AGI-16

AGI-16 @ New York

July 16-19, 2016

NOTE: Registration is in the lobby of University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York (on the campus of the New School)

Continuing the mission of the past AGI conferences, AGI-16 gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

AGI-16 @ New York will be held from July 16-19 of 2016, on the campus of the New School in Lower Manhattan.

As a special event for 2016, the AGI-16 conference will be co-located with three other related conferences — BICA-16, the Neural-Symbolic Workshop 2016 and the AI & Cognition Workshop 2016 — as part of the overall Human-Level Intelligence 2016 (HLAI-16) event.

Don’t miss this unprecedented joint conference — the largest event dedicated to human-level AI and AGI ever to occur on Planet Earth!

See the Call for Papers here. The EasyChair submission page will open in February 2016, and registration will start shortly thereafter.

“Artificial General Intelligence”

The original goal of the AI field was the construction of “thinking machines” – that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligence. Due to the difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority of AI researchers have focused on what has been called “narrow AI” – the production of AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific, highly constrained tasks.

In recent years, however, more and more researchers have recognized the necessity – and feasibility – of returning to the original goals of the field by treating intelligence as a whole. Increasingly, there is a call for a transition back to confronting the more difficult issues of “human-level intelligence” and more broadly artificial general intelligence. AGI research differs from the ordinary AI research by stressing on the versatility and wholeness of intelligence, and by carrying out the engineering practice according to an outline of a system comparable to the human mind in a certain sense.

The AGI conference series has played, and continues to play, a significant role in this resurgence of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original sense of the term of “artificial intelligence”. The conferences encourage interdisciplinary research based on different understandings of intelligence, and exploring different approaches.

The Ninth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
New York City, July 16-19, 2016